On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Dave Ewart <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 28.06.2012 at 11:07 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > >> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012, Todor Fassl wrote: >> >Our Windows guy insists samba is slow but I don't believe it. He >> >claims that when you load a roamng profile, Windows downloads only >> >files that have changed and samba downloads everything. But he >> >doesn't know anything about samba and I don't know where he got that >> >from. > > However native speed won't be important if, under Samba, a full roaming > profile is downloaded on each login whereas under Windows an rsync-like > action takes place to only download minimal changes. I don't know > whether that's the case or not, whether it's configurable behaviour > under either Samba or Windows Server, but it's certainly an interesting > point.
is it possible that unix file timestamps having a greater precision than ntfs is causing windows to see a "change"? I know rsync has an option to combat this. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
